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- catalog abstract "A century and a half after the Black Death killed over a third of the population of Western Europe, a new plague swept across the continent. The Great Pox - commonly known as the French Disease - brought a different kind of horror: instead of killing its victims rapidly, it endured in their bodies for years, causing acute pain, disfigurement and ultimately an agonising death. The authors analyse the symptoms of the Great Pox and the identity of patients, richly documented in the records of the massive hospital of 'incurables' established in early sixteenth-century Rome. They show how the disease threw accepted medical theory and practice into confusion and provoked public disputations among university teachers. And at the most practical level they reveal the plight of its victims at all levels of society, from ecclesiastical lords to the poor who begged in the streets. Examining a range of contexts from princely courts and republics to university faculties, confraternities and hospitals, the authors argue powerfully for a historical understanding of the Great Pox based on contemporary perceptions rather than on a retrospective diagnosis of what later generations came to know as 'syphilis'".
- catalog contributor b10193702.
- catalog contributor b10193703.
- catalog contributor b10193704.
- catalog contributor b10193705.
- catalog coverage "Europe".
- catalog created "c1997.".
- catalog date "1997".
- catalog date "c1997.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1997.".
- catalog description "1. Syphilis and the French Disease -- 2. The Arrival of the French Disease in Renaissance Italy: initial impact and lay reactions -- 3. God's Punishment: lay perceptions of the French Disease in Ferrara -- 4. The Medical Dispute at the Court of Ferrara -- 5. The French Disease in Northern Europe: the case of Germany -- 6. The French Disease and the Papal Court -- 7. The French Disease and the Hospitals for Incurables in Italy until 1530 -- 8. The French Disease and the Incurabili Hospitals, 1530-1600: the case of Rome -- 9. Catching the Pox: contagion -- 10. The French Disease Grows Old.".
- catalog description "A century and a half after the Black Death killed over a third of the population of Western Europe, a new plague swept across the continent. The Great Pox - commonly known as the French Disease - brought a different kind of horror: instead of killing its victims rapidly, it endured in their bodies for years, causing acute pain, disfigurement and ultimately an agonising death. The authors analyse the symptoms of the Great Pox and the identity of patients, richly documented in the records of the massive hospital of 'incurables' established in early sixteenth-century Rome. They show how the disease threw accepted medical theory and practice into confusion and provoked public disputations among university teachers. And at the most practical level they reveal the plight of its victims at all levels of society, from ecclesiastical lords to the poor who begged in the streets. Examining a range of contexts from princely courts and republics to university faculties, confraternities and hospitals, the authors argue powerfully for a historical understanding of the Great Pox based on contemporary perceptions rather than on a retrospective diagnosis of what later generations came to know as 'syphilis'".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xv, 352 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0300069340 (cloth : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1997".
- catalog issued "c1997.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New Haven : Yale University Press,".
- catalog spatial "Europe".
- catalog spatial "Europe.".
- catalog spatial "Italy".
- catalog spatial "Italy.".
- catalog subject "1997 D-488".
- catalog subject "614.5/472/09409031 20".
- catalog subject "History, 16th Century Europe.".
- catalog subject "History, 16th Century Italy.".
- catalog subject "RC201.6.A1 A77 1997".
- catalog subject "Syphilis Europe History 16th century.".
- catalog subject "Syphilis Europe History.".
- catalog subject "Syphilis Italy History.".
- catalog subject "Syphilis history".
- catalog subject "WC 160 A777g 1997".
- catalog tableOfContents "1. Syphilis and the French Disease -- 2. The Arrival of the French Disease in Renaissance Italy: initial impact and lay reactions -- 3. God's Punishment: lay perceptions of the French Disease in Ferrara -- 4. The Medical Dispute at the Court of Ferrara -- 5. The French Disease in Northern Europe: the case of Germany -- 6. The French Disease and the Papal Court -- 7. The French Disease and the Hospitals for Incurables in Italy until 1530 -- 8. The French Disease and the Incurabili Hospitals, 1530-1600: the case of Rome -- 9. Catching the Pox: contagion -- 10. The French Disease Grows Old.".
- catalog title "The great pox : the French disease in Renaissance Europe / Jon Arrizabalaga, John Henderson, and Roger French.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".